The Swedish security service Sapo has sounded the alarm over the rise of extremists saying that the number of known extremists in some circles has risen from hundreds to thousands in a short period of time. Sapo have recommended and

Islamic terrorists, mainly the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), carried out more than 30 attacks in over ten countries during the first week of the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, killing at least 166 people and injuring 155 others, a Breitbart News count shows.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, during a speech on the Middle East delivered in Cairo Thursday, praised the United States as a “force for good” in the region and blasted previous President Barack Obama’s administration for underestimating Islamic extremism and the Iranian menace.

BERLIN (AP) – German police have conducted a large-scale anti-terror drill at Cologne-Bonn airport, in the west of the country, amid ongoing concerns about the threat posed by Islamic extremists. Some 1,000 officers took part in the exercise early Wednesday,

Labour has defended inviting a notorious Islamist preacher to appear at a party event, claiming that collaboration with “faith groups” is an “essential part of the fight against the scourge of racism”.

In 2011, James Clapper described the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist umbrella organization and the progenitor of Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas — as a “largely secular” network of organizations that has “eschewed violence.”

Former President Barack Obama told an audience at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event in South Africa Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth that income inequality and other disruptions caused by a “backlash” against globalization and liberalization were factors in the 9/11 attacks, the resurgence of populism, Chinese aggression, and the rise of President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

French psychiatrist Pierre-François Godet has denied a causal link between radical Islamic terrorism and mental illness saying that he could find no objective studies that proved any direct links between the two.

A female radical Islamic extremist has been caught by French police in possession of a USB key that contained the names and identities of 2,626 intelligence officials from France’s Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI).

TEL AVIV — Many prominent Saudi clerics have kept silent in the wake of comments made by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Tuesday that Saudi Arabia destroy “extremist ideologies” in a campaign to return to “a more moderate Islam.”